On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 4:01 AM, Gilles Caulier <[email protected]> wrote: > > 2018-08-11 12:34 GMT+02:00 Valorie Zimmerman <[email protected]>: >> >> Hello folks, I've recently spent a week with Boud and Irina Rempt at >> their invitation. I hope that this sort of generous hospitality >> becomes the norm in our our KDE family. While there, we had many >> conversations about the past, present and future of KDE. I was >> surprised to learn that during the life of KO, Boud's previous company >> with Inga Wallin and now with his small company which supports Krita, >> he encountered quite a bit of opposition *in the KDE community*! > > > Hi Valorie, > > What do you mean exactly by "opposition" ? > > Best > > Gilles Caulier
Opposition in the form not of "this is how I think you could do this better" but "what a horrible idea to pay people to support KDE software for MONEY!" and "What, another foundation? And to pay developers? Terrible thing." I was shocked to hear that such thoughts were expressed to the very people doing the work to support KDE in a professional way. In addition there is the widespread opinion that amateurs are better than professionals for KDE, and that if there are professionals working on software, that the volunteers will leave. In fact, this idea seems widespread in the FOSS world. From what I have seen, professionals can *increase* volunteer contributions, by laying the groundwork for successful onboarding, by paying attention to details which volunteers left undone or did improperly, by doing work that no volunteers have the skills or interest in doing, in ensuring that documentation is up-to-date, by thinking of tasks such as training sessions for bug-triage, documentation writing, packaging, testing days and so forth. Valorie -- http://about.me/valoriez
